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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a very large civil war in southern China led by Hong Xiuquan against the Manchurian Qing Dynasty. Aproximately 20 million people died, mostly civilians. -
Wuchang Uprising
The Wuchang Uprising was the debacle that led to the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution and ending the Qing Dynasty. It all started when people started to dislike the way the railroad crisis was being handled. -
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Northern Expidition
The Northern Expidition was an attempt to unite all of China into one power. The end of the expidition signified the establishment of the Nanjing Govvernment -
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Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident was a staged attack by Japanese forces on a Japanese train. The Japanese Government then accused China for the attack and used this as an excuse to invade China. -
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The Long March
The Long March was a large scale retreat of Chinese forces from the Kuomintang army. The Chinese army broke up and followed a path to the west and came back around to the north east. -
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Second-Sino Japanese War
The Second-Sino Japanese War was a war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The United States and the Soviet Union ended up having to put an end to the war with the atomic bomb -
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Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre was a mass rape and mass murder of Nanking people comitted by Japanese troops. It is estimated that anywhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people were killed in this incident. -
People's Republic of China Admitted to UN
In 1945 CHina was admitted into the UN. -
Founding of the Republic of China
After the Chinese civil war, on the first of October, 1949, Mao Zedong took complete communist control of China and named it the People's Republic of China. -
Chinese Nationalists move Capital to Taiwan
Chinese Nationalists are slowly losing the fight against the communists forces, so they flee for Taiwan to crate a new capitol. -
Seventeen Point Agreement with Tibet
After winning the war against Tibet, Chinese officials reached an agreement with Tibet called the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet. -
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Great Leap Foward
The Great Leap Foward was a large scale Chinese campaigne led by Mao Zedong to tranform the Republic of China into a communist government. -
May 16 Notification
The May 16 Notification was an alert saying that the Cultural Revolution had begun in China. -
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was a movement launched by Mao Zedong to enforce the communist government in China by removing capitolism. -
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Nixon visits China
In order to establish good terms with China, Persident Nixon visited China for a week. for a quarter of a century America and CHina saw eachother as enemies, but this event put an end to the bad terms. -
Arrest of the Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a Chinese Communist party which was trying to control certain organs of China. -
One Child Policy Instituted
Due to overpopulation issues in China, the One Child Policy was in introduced. This policy restricts all families from having more than one child. -
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Tiananmen Square protests
The events started when sutdents began protesting the Chinese government and demanded that China be turned into a democracy, Though most of them didnt know what it was. To stop the protests, Mao Zedong demands that troops walk into the crowds and shoot any protesters. -
Hong Kong Returns to China
Over the years before the Hong Kong has been claimed by many separate powers, but on the first of July, 1997, the "Handover" took place and Hong Kong was finally returned to China. -
Macau Returned to China
For a long time, Portugal had control over Macau. But on December 21st, 1999, Portugal returned Macau back to Chinese control. -
Hainan Island Incident
Hainan Island incident involved the mid-air condition of an American plane and a plane of China. The incident caused an international debacle between the U.S. and China -
Building of the Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is located in the Yangtze River near Sangdouping, China. The construction costed approximately 180 billion yuan. ($26 billion)
